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Warm-up gig for band before Glastonbury date

BRUTON-based band The Johnsons are to perform a free warm-up gig at the Alhampton Inn tomorrow evening ahead of their triple appearance at this year's Glastonbury Festival.The band play versions of songs by everyone from Hank Williams to Merle Haggard ... [Published This is Somerset - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Merle Haggard, Hank Williams, Glastonbury Festival

First reported 7 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 1 reports

Country Music Television

Chet Flippo, Longtime Music Writer, Former Billboard Nashville Bureau Chief, Dies at 69

Chet Flippo -- a veteran music writer, editor and author, as well as Billboard's Nashville Bureau Chief from 1995 to 2000 -- passed away Wednesday morning (June 19) of pneumonia, according to several reports that were not confirmed at press time. At the ... [Published Hollywood Reporter - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Hank Williams, Country Music Television, Rolling Stone

First reported 7 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 1 reports

Slim Whitman, country singer who won new fame with TV sales, dies at 90

The down-on-his-luck singer sat on the steps of Nashville's famed Grand Ole Opry, bemoaning the job he'd just lost at a radio station, when out walked country legend Hank Williams.The celebrated but troubled singer and songwriter, who had just been fired ... [Published Miami Herald - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Slim Whitman, Hank Williams, Joe Flaherty, Calamity Jane, Eddy Arnold

First reported 10 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 reports

Top 5 things to do in Nashville

Music City USA is home to a wide genre of music, but if you come here it's the country and honky tonk scene you should embrace - and the southern cooking. County Music Hall of FameThis is a pilgrimage for music fans of all genres because so many new sounds ... [Published New Zealand Herald - 10 hours ago]

Entities: Vince Gill, Grand Ole Opry, Waylon Jennings, Hank Williams

First reported 12 hours ago - Updated 12 hours ago - 1 reports

Barbara Ann Burger Davenport

Graveside services for , age 48, will be Tuesday June 18, 2013 at Shady Grove Cemetery in Coffee County. Visitation will be Monday from 2:00 to 8:00 PM at Woodbury Funeral Home.Ms. Davenport is survived by her mother, JoAnn Goff Burger of McMinnville; ... [Published The Murfreesboro Post - 12 hours ago]

Entities: Barbara Ann, Hank Williams, Baptist Church

First reported Jun 19 2013 - Updated Jun 19 2013 - 1 reports

Wed 6/19: Cowboy Jack

MusicSpecial EventsCountryRockabillyDel Mar Cowboy Jack Cowboy Jack will perform on the O’Brien Stage, playing acoustic guitar and harmonica while singing vintage country songs from the 1940s to 1970s, including Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, and Merle ... [Published San Diego Reader - Jun 19 2013]

Entities: Cowboy, Jimmy Durante, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash

First reported Jun 18 2013 - Updated Jun 18 2013 - 1 reports

Together, in song and sorrow

Slaid Cleaves appreciates the power of a good sad song. He's written a few good ones of his own, too -- songs about displacement, songs about grief, songs about mortality. Cleaves is certainly the only artist in American music to write a song ("Temporary") ... [Published Individual.com - Jun 18 2013]

Entities: Slaid Cleaves, Hank Williams, Woody Guthrie, Don Walser

First reported Jun 12 2013 - Updated Jun 12 2013 - 1 reports

Williams tribute to help Red Cross

As a tribute to the late Hank Williams Sr., a concert is planned that will also benefit the local Red Cross, according to a media release.Thursday will mark the 64th anniversary of Williams? historic performance in Muskogee. He made his first appearance ... [Published Muskogee Phoenix - Jun 12 2013]

Entities: Hank Williams, Red Cross/Crescent, American Red Cross, Grand Ole Opry

First reported Jun 12 2013 - Updated Jun 12 2013 - 1 reports

Hank Williams Jr. Bangor concert postponed

Hank Williams Jr.BANGOR, Maine — The same day it was announced that Hank Williams Jr. would be performing on the Bangor Waterfront in August, concert organizers sent a news announcement saying the performance has been “postponed due to technical issu ... [Published Bangor Daily News - Jun 12 2013]

Entities: Hank Williams, Jr., Hank Williams, Platinum, Admission

First reported Jun 11 2013 - Updated Jun 11 2013 - 1 reports

Remembering Hank Williams Sr.

It was on this day in 1949 that Hiram King Williams made his legendary debut on the Grand Ole Opry radio show. The electrified audience called him back for not one, not two, not three, not four, or even five, but SIX encores after he performed his wildly ... [Published StarBanner.com - Jun 11 2013]

Entities: Hank Williams, Cracker Barrel, Musical notation, Grand Ole Opry

First reported Jun 01 2013 - Updated Jun 01 2013 - 1 reports

Fans come from Near and Far to Georgiana's Hank Williams Festival

The 34th Annual Hank Williams Festival kicked off in Georgiana Friday evening.The bands take center stage as the Hank Williams Festival kicks off in Georgiana.As food vendors get ready to serve up some tasty treats...Fans that have come from near and ... [Published WAKA CBS 8 - Jun 01 2013]

Entities: Hank Williams, FAR, Organism

First reported Jun 01 2013 - Updated Jun 01 2013 - 1 reports

'Last Ride' for country legend Hank Williams

The life of legendary country artist Hank Williams is depicted in “The Last Ride,” which arrives on Blu-ray and DVD June 4 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. Featuring an all-star cast including Henry Thomas (&ldquo... ... [Published Examiner.com - Jun 01 2013]

Entities: Hank Williams, Henry Thomas, Blu-Ray

Quotes

"just go down there and give them all you've got" Williams told cowboy balladeer Slim Whitman, who died Wednesday of heart failure outside Jacksonville, Fla. He was 90

Slim Whitman, country singer who won new fame with TV sales, dies at 90 [Published Miami Herald - 7 hours ago]

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